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still pretty slim, as it absolutely sucks at handling long documents, it doesn't work eliminate white space all that well (think multiple columns, where it matters the most), and its backwards compatibility is not exactly industry-leading.
tex, however, is good at all of the above.

I'm afraid you're right. Had it not been for MATLAB's tremendous mindshare (existing code) in academia/engineering co.'s, I doubt they would sit as pretty right now.

Next time I have to rearchitecture code/start anew, I'm sticking with scipy. Octave is great, but... yeah, as you say, not a real option (it's not drop in replacement, and if I have to rewrite code, I might as well pick a proper language).